David Case
1) Wolf Tracks
A killer stalks the city's streets . . .
Only a crazed beast could have committed the grisly murders that are terrorizing the city of Toronto. The victims are usually young women, their bodies found mangled as though torn apart by the fangs of a rabid animal. Yet witnesses swear they have seen the hulking figure of a man nearby.
But everyone knows there's no such thing as a werewolf . . .
First published in 1980, Wolf Tracks
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